Well, it's a pretty bad excuse but our small compact camera hasn't been working so we haven't had much media coverage of our comings and goings recently and stories without pictures just aren't as good. here are a selection of photos from my very basic camera phone telling some of the stories over the last few months.......
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| Katie relaxing at Christmas, the present on the sofa is actually a filtered water bottle. |
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| In a year of unprecedented SNP inspired Scottish-ness I made an incredible Burns' supper |
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| As I hurtle towards my 40's the body is starting to show some signs of weakness with a recent diagnosis of Coeliac disease - although I am still awaiting the results of the truly horrendous gut biopsy to confirm this. And the jury is still out - Coeliac disease might actually be a superhero quality rather than an autoimmune disease. |
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| But it looks like it is goodbye to Pizza and Beer - and I have a farewell party to all my favourite foods the whole week before my gut biopsy. That meant goodbye to ...................................... Lager, Doritos, Pizza, bread, rolls, sausage, pasta, kebabs, chip shops, horlicks......tons of stuff really. Anything containing wheat, barley and rye. The good news is that there is a lot of alcohol which is gluten free and that gluten free life although expensive is all round more healthy. |
As part of being Coeliac you get a prescription for food from the NH of S. ;o) Once everything is confirmed I will be able to collect a prescription for bread, flour, biscuits, rolls and stuff from the chemist. All the companies are competing for this business so they are all sending me freebie packs at the moment of gluten free pasta etc. Good times. To put the expense into perspective a loaf of gluten free bread is three quid and it's only a half loaf. Whether I am Coeliac or not what I do know is that I feel a million times better than I did when I finally gave in and went to the Doctor. Stop eating gluten people - it's bad stuff. ;o)
Other notable highlights over the last few months (which don't have photos so aren't worth talking about at length yet) include:
* Katie and I setting a date (if you haven't spoken to us recently you really should get on the skype......Lorna.) More to follow on this breaking news story.
* Steph keeping his job until May.
* Bungo-rific parking issues at the flat
* Tenants installing their own satellite dish
* Katie on a mission to finish her Masters
* Katie's new car
* Steph inheriting Katie's old car
* The payout for Steph's crashed car
* Katie's pending pay out for injury when crashing Steph's car
* Steph's bonus from the Taxman
* Katie's bonus from the NZ taxman
* Steph's impending bonus from the NZ taxman
All in all things are going well and I will definitely (now the wee camera is back in action) try to keep this updated.
Upcoming events include heading to Paris for my Mum's 60th birthday - should be a photo fest.
Au revoir tout le monde,
Steph
